{"id":21109,"date":"2016-01-23T02:46:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T10:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/5-down-to-earth-takeaways-from-the-martian"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:14:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:14:51","slug":"5-down-to-earth-takeaways-from-the-martian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/5-down-to-earth-takeaways-from-the-martian","title":{"rendered":"5 Down-To-Earth Takeaways From \u2018The Martian\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5-down-to-earth-takeaways-from-the-martian.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glad to see The Martian get some Academy Award action; as much as I liked the novel, I found the film to be as good or better, which is rare. And I also found it to be personally inspiring in a way that few science fiction films are. But the point I\u2019m trying to make here is that; we aren\u2019t that far from Hermes-type spacecraft for interplanetary transfer. It\u2019s not out of the realm of possibilities. I wonder if any of you feel the same way.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>With six Academy Award nominations, the celebrated film adaptation of Andy Weir\u2019s novel \u201cThe Martian\u201d has been the perfect tonic for rousing interest in human missions to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>But as good as the book truly is, the film transcends its source material about a stranded Mars astronaut with some practical takeaways that are as inspiring as any out there. They include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duct tape goes a long way<\/strong> \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Throwing money at a problem, particularly in aerospace, can often lead to little of real use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2016\/01\/23\/5-down-to-earth-takeaways-from-the-martian\/#3b2714134e6427e9598c4e64\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glad to see The Martian get some Academy Award action; as much as I liked the novel, I found the film to be as good or better, which is rare. And I also found it to be personally inspiring in a way that few science fiction films are. But the point I\u2019m trying to make [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1635,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-materials","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68749,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21109\/revisions\/68749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}